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...pictures. Suddenly the cabin door popped open and the plane yawed. When Mrs. Capellaro's husband turned to look at his wife, she was gone-sucked from the pressurized cabin through the open hatch and, after a fall of approximately one minute and 25 seconds, dropped without a trace into the ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Blown into the Sea | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...France, who were backed by government " funds, came equipped with their own weathermen and radio crews that promptly dispatched retrieving trailers to landing points. But the U.S. team, forced to pay its own way, had no radios and had to rely on the strictly unilingual Spanish telephone system to trace its pilots. Some of them, down in isolated spots, waited hours before getting back to Madrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Birds' Apprentices | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...trace this monolithic concentration on usage is to pursue a vicious circle . . . The literate public seems to get it from the English teachers, and the teachers get it from the public . . . A phony standardization of usage appears in print, the work of editors unconscious of the ultimate meaning of what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Blank White Page | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

Fire officials said they could not trace these two calls, but suspected "Jokers" who were playing on the department's tenseness over the fires that occurred here last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three False Calls Keep Square Full | 5/14/1952 | See Source »

...accuracy in pinning down the tumor site with the aid of a dye tagged with iodine-131. Other doctors have not been able to get as good results so the search goes on. Boston's Dr. Abraham S. Freedberg is encouraged by the way radioactive rubidium (a rare trace element in the body) concentrates in the tumor more than in healthy brain tissue making the cancer easier to spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atomic Medicine: THE GREAT SEARCH FOR CURES ON A NEW FRONTIER | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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